Call for Papers

Smalltalks 2008 - 2nd Argentinian Smalltalk Conference
November 13th – 15th Buenos Aires, Argentina

Conference Site: 
http://neuquina.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar:8001/Smalltalks-2008

Last year, Smalltalks 2007 (1st Argentinian Smalltalk Conference) was a
lively forum on Smalltalk-based software technologies that attracted over
more than 200 people from both academia and industry for three days. During
this first conference, the industrial partners showed the applicability of
Smalltalk in business, while the students and professors showed their
research and didactic uses of Smalltalk. The presented approaches and
methodologies concerned the language, its implementation technology, its
programming tools as well as the software development culture it supports.
In this year conference, we are extending the scope of the research and
educational track to include other dynamic languages, not only Smalltalk.

In this call, we invite research papers that report on original scientific
research conducted in and/or for Smalltalk and Dynamic Languages in general.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

- Aspects, Aspect Languages and Applications.
- Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing and Embedded
Systems.
- Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines.
- Educational Material.
- Language Engineering, Extensions.
- Model Driven Engineering / Development.
- Meta-Modeling.
- Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures and Components.
- Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, UI Frameworks.
- Reasoning About Code (Analysis, Refactoring, Type Inference, Metrics).
- Reflection and Meta-programming.
- Team Management.
- Testing, Extreme Programming / Practices.
- Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming.
- Experience Reports.

Important dates:
- Submission (Hard Deadline): September 7th, 2008 (Argentinian time).
- Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2008.
- Camera Ready Submission: October 15th, 2008.

Papers:
Papers should be written in English, in pdf-format and not exceed 10 pages
(including references and figures), using the 2-column IEEE conference
format. Templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX formats can be found at
http://www.ieee.org/go/conferencepublishing/templates

Papers must be submitted through the Conference Website, in the Research
Track section. The accepted papers will be published in the Smalltalks 2008
Research Track Proceedings published by CEUR (CEUR-WS.org - online
proceedings for scientific workshops) and will be digitally available in the
conference website. Papers submitted must not have been previously published
and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly
adhere to submission guidelines.

If you have questions, please send an e-mail to Gabriela Arévalo
(gabriela.arevalo at lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar) using [Smalltalks08-RT] as tag
in the e-mail subject.

Program Committee:
- Federico Balaguer (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
- Tulio Ballari (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Alexandre Bergel (INRIA, Lille, France)
- Gilad Bracha (Cadence Design Systems, USA)
- Johan Brichau (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Cecilia Challiol (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
- Marco D'Ambros (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
- Marcus Denker (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Fernando Dodino (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Stéphane Ducasse (INRIA, Lille, France)
- Alejandra Garrido (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
- Tudor Girba (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Orla Greevy (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Julián Grigera (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
- Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany)
- Andy Kellens (PROG, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
- Michele Lanza (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
- Kim Mens (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Guillermo Adrián Molina (ESSI Projects, Spain)
- Damien Pollet (INRIA, Lille, France)
- Romain Robbes (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
- David Röthlisberger (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Daniel Solmirano (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Tom Van Cutsem (PROG, Vrije Universeit Brussels, Belgium)
- Roel Wuyts (IMEC, Belgium)

Organizing Committee:
- Gabriela Arévalo (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
- Andrés Fortier (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata)